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Mother's Day 2010 - Silver Jewellery Gifts To Make Her Day!
Mother’s Day falls on Sunday 14th March this year. On this special day, show your love and appreciation for all your Mother does for you by giving her a silver jewellery gift that can be treasured forever.
The new range of Affirmations silver jewellery at Oishii Jewellery is perfect for thoughtful Mother’s Day gifts. Each piece in the contemporary jewellery range is inscribed with messages of love and positivity, allowing you to choose a present that is more meaningful than just a bunch of flowers.
Silver Affirmations Poetry Bangle - a gorgeous bangle bearing the love-affirming message, 'We do not remember days...We remember moments'.
Silver Affirmations Love Bracelet - a chunky silver bracelet which bears a tag with the simply perfect statement, 'Love is what makes it all worthwhile'.
Silver Dream Necklace - a beautiful necklace featuring the word ‘Dream’, suspended from a fine silver chain.
The new range at Oishii also includes silver poesy rings which carry the message, 'May we love forever', or the wonderful love note, 'Mon coeur est a vous', which translates as 'My heart is yours'. These make perfect keepsakes for your wife or partner, or as a gift for a new mum.
Forget the usual Mother's Day gifts of chocolates and flowers, and give a silver love token that can be treasured forever. These expressions of love can be worn again and again, each time reminding her of why she loves you so much!
Oishii Jewellery is here to make jewellery gift buying a joy this Mother's Day , and there is still time to choose the perfect gift.
View the full range today, visit Oishii at http://www.oishii-jewellery.co.uk/mothers_day_gifts.html for Mother's Day jewellery gifts delivered with love!
About the Author
Libby Clark writes for Oishii Jewellery Ltd, a company specializing in silver jewellery and gifts at affordable prices. View their entire range online at http://www.oishii-jewellery.co.uk/silver-jewellery.html
Token gift to a client who was elected recently?
A pretty good client of mine was just elected to mayor of her town (I have no idea why the election was held yesterday, and not in November).
I thought it would be neat to give her a silver coin as a present - it's durable and attractive.
Here's why I'm asking the question here - the last election she participated in was a tie between herself and the incumbent. She lost to him by a coin toss.
I thought it would be fitting to send her a nice coin, and a sincere note of congratulations along with it.
Do you think the coin would upset her, or do you think a sincere "congratulations" would make it clear that I meant it in a good way?
I think it would be very thoughtful... and I doubt she would be offended..... she may even find humor in it later on realizing the coin's significance in the past
Good idea... a nice note along with it would be perfect
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Solid Silver
Solid Silver

What is the best thing to use to clean solid sterling silver? ( .925 purity silver)?
I found and purchased an antique car collection for my father for Christmas. It has small, individual cars grooved into 1-inch silver chunks. It needs to be cleaned before I give it to him. But I'm afraid I'll damage it. Have any solutions? Thanks in advance!
anyone agree with k-mom's answer?
ok, now I don't know what to think!?! can someone assure me that these methods won't ruin them?
Actually, I found a site that recommends some of the methods already listed:
Silver tarnishes when exposed to air. This occurs more quickly in damp and foggy weather, but is inevitable in any climate. Store in treated paper or cloth, or plastic film.
Methods of cleaning silver should be determined by the value placed on it, monetary or sentimental, and the design of the pattern. Silver with deeply "carved" patterns that are enhanced by an oxide or French gray finish should be hand polished with a high quality silver cream or polish.
Hand rubbing develops patina on silver which adds to its beauty. Ornamental silver pieces that have been lacquered may be washed in lukewarm water; hot water could remove the lacquer. Polishing silver while wearing rubber gloves promotes tarnish. Instead, choose plastic or cotton gloves.
Silver has enemies. Rubber severely affects silver. Rubber corrodes silver, and it can become so deeply etched that only a silversmith can repair the damage. Raised designs can be lost permanently. Avoid using storage cabinets or chests with rubber seals, rubber floor coverings, rubber bands, etc.
Other enemies of silver include table salt, olives, salad dressing, eggs, vinegar and fruit juices. Serve these foods in china or glass containers. Although flowers and fruit look lovely in silver containers, the acid produced as they decay can etch the containers and cause serious damage. When using silver containers, use plastic or glass liners.
Baking Soda: Apply a paste of baking soda and water. Rub, rinse, and polish dry with a soft cloth. To remove tarnish from silverware, sprinkle baking soda on a damp cloth and rub it on the silverware until tarnish is gone. Rinse and dry well.
Aluminum Foil, Baking Soda, and Salt: Place a sheet of aluminum foil in the bottom of a pan, add 2-3 inches of water, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon salt, and bring to a boil. Add silver pieces, boil 2-3 minutes, making sure the water covers the silver pieces. Remove silver, rinse, dry, and buff with a soft cloth. This method cleans the design and crevices of silver pieces.
Toothpaste: To clean off tarnish, coat the silver with toothpaste, then run it under warm water, work it into a foam, and rinse it off. For stubborn stains or intricate grooves, use an old soft-bristled toothbrush.
No, I DON'T guarantee it!
Solid silver Helicopter was a gift.
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Italian Coin
Italian Coin

There is no secret that the economic world is in shambles today and people are looking for any good investment idea they can find to build a proper nest egg. The traditional methods of 401K plans, blue chip stocks, and savings accounts have failed for many of those savvy retirement investors. However, there is one method that is as close to a guarantee of future solvency as it gets. That method is the purchase of gold for later resale.
Why Buy Gold?
Gold is a good investment for the future because of one simple fact. Gold has historically managed to maintain its value and rarely has it depreciated to any major amount. For instance, the same amount of pure gold that could buy land, a house, and a few horses monetarily two hundred years ago is worth more or less the same now as it was then. The value of horses, and land may have changed but the monetary value of the gold itself keeps up with inflation and other variables to maintain itself.
There are many other reasons to buy gold. These reasons revolve around the concept of collectible value. Gold coins and jewelry can actually be worth more than their material value based on design, age, and overall popularity in the current era. Ancient gold Spanish coins are worth a great deal more than freshly minted bullion coins, for instance. The only reason for this is that they are ancient, historical, and highly collectible.
What Types of Gold are Best to Buy?
The best type of gold to buy is certified bullion. This means that gold coins are considered to be the purest form of gold. To be considered true bullion gold must be nine hundred ninety-nine parts out of one thousand; pure gold. This is shown as 99.9% purity. This is the exact same level of purity as twenty-eight carat gold, the purest form of gold available in jewelry.
Gold can be purchased as jewelry, bricks, ornaments, or coins as an investment. Jewelry and ornaments, much like coins, can be sold for far more than their material worth. However, unlike coins, the market for jewelry and ornaments does tend to fluctuate heavily with trends and current fashion. While any statue, bracelet, or ring can be melted down for its true gold value the extra amount that can be garnered will change based on popularity and antiquity of the piece.
By far the most sought after form of gold to purchase is bullion coins. Governments tend to mint them on a yearly basis currently and each one of them is valued at a certain set price. Once purchased, their value can increase dramatically in only a few years. Coins in that design for that year will never be minted legally again. Some of the most popular are the South African Krugerrand, the British Sovereign, and the US Gold Eagle. However, the US Gold eagle is not as pure in gold as the other types and has roughly 91.67% pure gold. Most still consider it a bullion coin, even though it clearly does not fall into the true determination of such types of gold. It is not 99.9% pure. Do note, however, that this does not limit its collector's value and these coins are often sought after for this reason alone.
The other popular method of purchasing gold is to buy them in bullion bricks stamped and certified by reliable sources, usually governments or banks. Bullion bricks are easy to keep around and tend to be worth a great deal more on a per brick basis than an individual coin. Old bricks smelted during earlier time periods such as the medieval or civil war era can actually have collector's value as well if they can be proven as such. Generally, though, bullion bricks are bought as a safety net since their value tends to stay constant throughout the years.
Shaun Robert Connell writes for Learn Gold Coins, a gold website that helps you learn how to buy gold coins.
I found some 1970 Italian coins, can I still use them when I go to Italy this summer?
no because the coins you own are Liras, in Italy we use Euro now...
Technibond Italian City Coin Charm
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Austrian Silver
Austrian Silver

Hello From Austria - Hiking Through The Vineyards Of Southwestern Styria
On a beautiful warm summer day and after a nice filling breakfast we got going early yesterday to embark on our Sunday excursion to the south-western part of Styria. I wasn't particularly well-rested after a full day yesterday that included a hike, a local driving tour and a birthday party, but I was keen to explore the area west of Leibnitz, Styria's foremost winegrowing region together with my brother Ewald, his wife Anneliese and our friends Luis and Isabella.
Distances in Europe are always on a different scale than in North America. Southwestern Styria is only about one hour from my home town of Weiz and nevertheless it is considered a different geographic region from my home area of East Styria. Southwestern Styria enjoys a favourable climate with Mediterranean influences and the temperatures are on average higher than those in the surrounding regions. The area is particularly well-known for its rolling hills, many of which are used as vineyards for growing mostly white, but also some red wines of the Zweigelt or Blauburgunder variety. The most well-known wine of this area is called "Schilcher", a rose-coloured wine, whose special designation can only be applied to wines that were grown in this particular area and made from a type of grape called the "Blaue Wildbacher".
We stopped our vehicle on a parking lot just steps away from the "Weinbauschule Silberberg" (the Silberberg School of Viticulture). This particular schools features a 1.5 km long wine educational trail that provides informational background about the history of wine, about details related to wine-growing as well as a collection of old wine farming implements and tools. A 5 m high statue of St. Urban, the patron saint of the vintners, stands at the beginning of the wine educational trail, and further up the hill there is an oversized metal sculpture of an insect called the wine pest that was brought in from France in the 1800s and almost completely deciminated Styrian wine cultivation.
We slowly hiked up on pathways along the vineyards and had a beautiful view south, and westwards towards the mountain chain separating the Austrian provinces of Styria and Carinthia. Schloss Seggau (Seggau Castle), dating back to the 12th century, was clearly visible nearby, a structure that was once used to defend Austria's border against invading Turks and Hungarians, but today has found new use as a hotel and conference centre.
Once we reached the top of the hill we climbed up the "Kreuzkogelwarte", a lookout tower at an elevation of 496 m that provided a continuous 360 degree view of the surrounding countryside. North of us was the provincial capital of Graz with a backdrop of the mountains of Northern Styria, south of us Slovenia, and west of us the Austrian province of Carinthia.
My brother pointed out a particular hill that also featured a vineyard and was apparently the property of famous Austrian tennis player Thomas Muster, who hails from the nearby district capital of Leibnitz. Thomas Muster, a former number 1 player, was one of the most gifted clay court players in the history of tennis and achieved 44 ATP tour titles throughout his career during the 1990s. Today Thomas Muster heads up his own fashion label called TOMS, runs a vineyard, has gotten involved in the production of high-quality Alpine spring water called TOMS Water, and not surprisingly, developed a tennis racquet called TOMS Machine in collaboration with the Kneissl company, released in 2005. A great tennis career can open many doors...
We continued our hike of the surrounding hills and walked by a so-called "Buschenschank", a rustic local restaurant owned by a vintner who is able to sell his own wine as well as a variety of self-produced culinary products. This is a typical Austrian gastronomic establishment that was originally limited to selling only this-year's wine and had strict limitations as to what type of foods they could serve. Today, many vintner's obtain a full restaurant license in order to sell regular hot foods as well.
After an enjoyable hike along the ridge of a vineyards we started our descent into the valley and spent about 45 minutes walking down a forest road and then headed into a cool forest that took us back to our vehicle. A fifteen minute drive later we arrived at our lunch destination: "Buschenschank Koschak" is a popular local destination for good wines and excellent local Styrian food. We had reserved a table and sat outside under trellises covered with grapes and vine tendrils.
It was seriously time for a traditional Styrian meal: I started with a "Fritattensuppe" (a clear beef broth that features thinly cut pancake strips), my favourite Austrian soup. Then all five of us shared a big platter of Austrian Fried Chicken as well as a Rosemary Chicken with Rice. Austrian fried chicken is very crispy and less greasy than North American varieties and is a staple of traditional Austrian Sunday lunches. Traditionally, the largest meal is eaten at lunch time in Austria, although modern work routines have changes the traditional rhythms of food preparation and consumption as well.
The obligatory side dish is a mixed salad containing lettuce, tomatoes, beans and other varieties of vegetables, marinated with vinegar and pumpkin seed oil. Pumpkin seed oil is a popular Styrian speciality, a specialty oil made from the roasted seeds of pumpkins. Styrian pumpkins are unique: the seeds have lost their wooden shell due to a mutation about 100 years ago and only a tiny silver-coloured membrane protects the seed. This soft consistency of the seeds facilitates efficient pressing of the oil. The final product is a thick, dark green oil that has a nutty flavour and is used primarily as a salad oil, but also to refine soups and other dishes. You can even get a "pumpkin seed parfait" as a dessert, which is exactly what my brother ordered after we were finished.
Incidentally, pumpkin seed oil is the only Styrian delicacy that I buy in Austria to bring back to Toronto, or I might request someone traveling from Austria to bring me a bottle. As a passionate salad eater, Austrian pumpkin seed oil is my favourite salad dressing, bar none. And just recently I found a German delicatessen store that apparently carries Styrian pumpkin seed oil right here in Toronto. So thanks to Toronto's multicultural culinary landscape I might actually be able to get my favourite Austrian delicacy right here without having to beg an Austrian visitor to bring me a bottle.
After a great meal I got really tired, especially considering the fact that I only had a few hours of sleep last night. I slept all the way home in the car and once we got back to my brother's house, I crashed for a few hours. I woke up at about 7 pm, and just before having a light dinner, I hopped on Anneliese's bicycle and went cycling for an hour throughout my home town.
Sunday night Austrian towns are traditionally very quiet since everyone is getting ready to go to work the next day, so the roads were nice and peaceful. When I came back my brother and sister-in-law were ready to go to bed so I turned in early to rest up for today. Well, unfortunately the weather today did not cooperate as planned and the entire morning was grey and drizzly. At noon time I visited my friends Andrea and Herbert, whose daughter Nina had stayed with my husband and me last year to as part of her Canadian stint to work as a nanny.
Andrea is the older sister of one of my best friends from school, and I had not seen her for at least 23 years. It was great to see her again, we had already chatted numerous times for free using www.skype.com, and I knew she had the same love for languages, travel and cosmopolitan thinking as me. She graciously invited me to join her family for lunch and I was listening intently to Andrea's and Herbert's travel stories from Rumania. Just in the last few weeks they had spent some time in Bucharest and in Transsylvania and learned much about Rumania's interesting history as well as about the tyrannical Ceauscescu regime. We all agreed that we view traveling much differently as we get older, that today we really see travel as an opportunity to learn and to understand the world and its historic and environmental contexts.
We decided that we would jointly visit another local tourism attraction tomorrow: the "Katerloch", a famous local limestone cave that is a popular regional tourist destination.
After a little walk in town I met my friends Luis and Isabella and their friend Wolfgang to play a couple of hours of tennis in an indoor tennis facility. The tennis club also features a bistro where we enjoyed a couple of pizzas afterwards and a beer. I thought to myself "these Austrians know how to live". None of the Canadian tennis clubs that I have been at feature a bistro or any kind of gastronomic establishment. So I realized these Austrians have their priorities straight: you can work out and burn calories, but you have to cap it off with a nice tasty meal and a local beer because "Gemütlichkeit" (loosely translated as warm cordiality in a cozy environment) is an important factor here.
After about an hour I thanked my friends for a great tennis match and a cozy evening and headed back to my brother's house to reconnect with him and to rest up for another eventful day tomorrow.
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What countries offer PURE silver bullion coins? ?
I am looking to invest in some....
I know there is the: US silver eagles, Chinese Pandas, Australian Kangaroos and others, Austrian......
But what other countries mint pure (99.93% +) silver coins?
Not looking for Sterling Silver...
Here is a link with information
http://www.24carat.co.uk/silverbullioncoinsframe.html
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In the Bible versus the Quran: What has the King done with the Son- Cannibalism?
According to 2 Kings 6:25-3 , the Bible mentions a horrible story; a woman cooked her son and ate him. When the king heard such a he tore his robes.
As the king was passing by on the wall a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help me, my lord, O king!" This woman said to me, 'Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we'll eat my son.' we cooked my son and ate him; but the next day I said to her, 'Give up your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden him.
This inhuman, barbarous, cruel, ruthless, heartless, merciless story is not found in the Quran.
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Cannibalism in the Bible (4):
2 Kings 6:25-30
New International Version
25 There was a great famine in the city; the siege lasted so long that a donkey's head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter of a cab of seed pods for five shekels.
26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, "Help me, my lord the king!"
27 The king replied, "If the LORD does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?"
28 Then he asked her, "What's the matter?" She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we'll eat my son.'
29 So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, 'Give up your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden him."
30 When the king heard the woman's words, he tore his robes. As he went along the wall, the people looked, and there, underneath, he had sackcloth on his body.
New American Standard Bible
25There was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.
26As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"
27He said, "If the LORD does not help you, from where shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the wine press?"
28And the king said to her, "What is the matter with you?" And she answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'
29"So we boiled my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him'; but she has hidden her son."
30When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes--now he was passing by on the wall--and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath on his body.
English Standard Version
25And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver. 26Now as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!" 27And he said, "If the LORD will not help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?" 28And the king asked her, "What is your trouble?" She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.' 29 So we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, 'Give your son, that we may eat him.' But she has hidden her son." 30When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes—now he was passing by on the wall—and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath on his body—
King James Version
25And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
26And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.
27And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
28And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
29So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
30And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.
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Cannibalism in the Quran (4):
This inhuman, barbarous, cruel, ruthless, heartless, merciless story of those two women who cooked and ate a little boy is not found in the Quran.
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Back to my question to the smart and interested reader:
Is the Quran quoted from the Bible?
About the Author
Professor Dr. Ibrahim Khalil
Prof. of Clinical and Chemical Pathology,
Head of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control Unit,
Ain-Shams University. Cairo, Egypt.
And, President of the Egyptian Society of Inventors.
Member of the Egyptian union of Writers
Should we just rip out the old testiment considering no body follows its word.?
Kill False Prophets- Deuteronomy 13:1-5 NLT
Pro Slavery
However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)
Murder, rape, and pillage at Jabesh-gilead (Judges 21:10-24 NLT)
Laws of Rape (Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT)
If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.
List goes on for ever.... but no more room here.
I completely agree. People claim they are following the Law of God, yet they completely ignore the fact that the Law of God is the OT, not the NT, while saying that the OT Law does not apply today. It is very true that it does not apply in this day and age. Even the laws dictated in the NT only applied to the culture of that period. Therefore the Bible as a whole should not be taken literally. You can not pick and choose what you are going to believe and follow so you have to either accept it all or none. It can't be both yet countless people believe otherwise.
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